Chapter 192: The Master Gave Me My Life

On the day Chu Wanning's retreat ended, an unexpected visitor arrived at the top of the Dead Life.

"Duk Duk Duk."

Early in the morning, the door to the red lotus watering hole is knocked on anxiously.

Mo Ran was dressing Chu Wanning, a man who had just finished his practice, who had been meditating for ten days, and who was in a daze, when he heard the knock at the door, he said rather coldly, "Please come in."

Mo Ran: "Pfft."

"What are you laughing at?"

"The Master has placed a barrier at the entrance, so who can get in but me and Xue Meng and the others."

Chu Wanning then remembered and raised his hand to untie the boundary. Outside, a disciple arrived in a frenzy, smelling of alcohol and looking like a fly in the ointment: "Elder Yu Heng, it's not good, there's a big demon at the entrance of Loyalty Palace".

The two men look at each other and immediately head for the Loyalty Palace.

From a distance, Mo Ran saw a huge gourd spinning around the square as a group of elders and disciples watched in disbelief.

Mo Ran: "The Great Demon"

Fat Gourd: "Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo."

When he saw Chu Wanning and Mo Ran coming, Xue Zhengyong's eyes lit up and he slapped his thighs: "Ah, Yu Heng has woken up just in time, there's help, there's help, come quickly."

Chu Wanning was still a bit confused, but he was so cool by nature that even though he was confused, his face still looked very high and mighty: "Hmm."

"Another demon that escaped from Jingu Tower." Xue Zhengyong looked bitter, angry and amused at the same time, "You're here to stay, you drunken gourd."

Chu Wanning raised his eyes to see the large gourd running around the field, two people high, covered with mother-of-pearl lustre, the mouth of the gourd was flickering with peachy red smoke for a while, and then spewing out bubbling wine syrup, it was indeed the rumoured wine coloured gourd demon.

Chu Wanning said, "This demon does not hurt people."

"But it pours people alcohol."

As soon as he caught up with one of them, he opened a gaping hole and started spewing wine into his mouth, making an unintelligible "gurgle gurgle gurgle gurgle" as he did so.

Chu Wanning :""

"I heard it only serves people who can drink better than it." Xue Zhengyong eyed it, " Yu Heng, you see"

Chu Wanning held the corner of his forehead with some headache, swept off the field, summoned the Heavenly Question and crossed it in front of the wine gourd.

"Don't run away." He said, "I'll drink with you."

The fat gourd was overjoyed and shook back and forth, the cracked mouth immediately rose up and poofed a mouthful of wine towards Chu Wanning's handsome face, but to Chu Wanning's surprise, he dodged the mouthful of wine with ease, the crowd only saw a golden light, the fat gourd had been tightly strangled by Tianwen.

"For a different kind of drink, do you have a cup?"

"Gooooooooooo" a small gourd scoop spat out of the crack of the fat gourd, clear and clean and full of wine, "Booooo"

Chu Wanning then sat down on the floor and drank with the wine gourd as the crowd watched.

"Gollum bob bob bob"

"Good, one more."

"Boo."

"Is there a pearly white"

"Boing boing boing."

Xue Zhengyong said in astonishment, " Yu Heng, you seem to understand it."

"Hmm." Chu Wanning said, "There's always a bit of understanding in the words of this type of demon."

Wine gourd: "Boing boing boing"

Mo Ran then laughed and said, "Master, what did he say this time?"

Chu Wanning: "was chatting to me about how it hadn't been in the sun for a long time."

The wine-coloured gourd looked delighted and, for some reason, apparently having understood Chu Wanning's words, it approached him affectionately and diligently poured him another large ladle of wine.

"This time it's pearly white."

"Boo."

"I don't love my daughter's red."

"Boo," the wine-coloured gourd poured out the wine with a clatter and replaced it with another one.

The crowd was stunned and all were speechless.

The crowd at the entrance to the Loyalty Palace was growing as they watched the man and the demon drink from morning to noon, the man not drunk and the demon happy.

Xue Meng and Shi Mei are also here.

When Mo Ran sees Shi Mei, he remembers his misunderstanding and feels guilty, so he tries to apologise to him, but when Shi Mei catches a glimpse of him, he turns around and leaves.

Xue Meng saw what was going on and elbowed Mo Ran: "He seems to be angry that you misunderstood him last time."

Mo Ran then got a little worried: "What should we do?"

"Talk to him, I'm in the middle of this." Xue Meng said, "Go on, there's nothing for you to do here anyway."

Mo Ran took one look at Chu Wanning, who was fighting with the wine gourd, and thinking that there would indeed be no problem for a while, he said to Xue Meng, "Then I will go to him first, stay here and keep an eye on the Master, and if anything happens, tell me immediately."

It didn't take much to catch up with Shi Mei, Mo Ran called out to him in front of the sword dance ping: " Shi Mei ".

""

" Shi Mei "

Shi Mei stopped and turned around, looking at him quietly, " Mo Ran wants to see me."

"No." Mo Ran waved her hand and frowned, "I came to tell you that what happened last time was really my fault."

"Which thing do you talk about?"

Mo Ran froze for a moment, eyes widening slightly, "What"

Shi Mei's expression was still light and gentle, and as the wind picked up, he stroked his hair from his temples: "It was red lotus Shui Qing that you misunderstood what I was going to do to the Master. Or was it the time at Yuliang Village when we ate together and neither of you sat at the same table with me? Or the earlier time when I went to bring you wine when the Master woke up and you never said a word to me from the beginning to the end. Which one"

It took a long time before he said, "You're angry with me so early."

Shi Mei shook her head, "Angry doesn't count, but I do care."

""

" Mo Ran, you have been deliberately distancing yourself from me ever since the teacher was born."

Mo Ran is then speechless. He was indeed deliberately distancing himself from Shi Mei. The two of them had been so close, so close that Ning could see them clearly.

It's just that when they were young, they didn't break the barrier between them because they felt something was missing, and when Mo Ran understood his feelings, he didn't know how to handle his relationship with Shi Mei.

He had thought about speaking to Shi Mei explicitly, but felt it was inappropriate.

He had never confessed his feelings for Shi Mei, nor was he sure how Shi Mei felt about him, so it would be too abrupt and presumptuous to run up to her and say he wanted to clear the air.

So the last thing he wanted was to fade away slowly.

Shi Mei gazed at him quietly, and after a moment said, "I told you when you first came to the top of death and life that I too had no father or mother and few friends, and that from then on we were family."

"Hmm."

"Then why have you changed?"

Mo Ran was very sad and suddenly confused as to why he had alienated Shi Mei in this way.

Since his return from the ghost world, he had spoken to Shi Mei more than a hundred times.

The two people who were once inseparable are now drifting apart, and Mo Ran wonders if she has gone too far.

He said, "I'm sorry."

"There's nothing to be sorry about." Shi Mei averted her gaze, "Forget it, that's all."

"Don't you be angry. I don't feel good when you're angry, and you've always been good to me."

Shi Mei finally smiled faintly, "I've been good to you, what about compared to the Master"

Mo Ran said, "It's not the same."

Shi Mei looked at the distant mountains and said, "I remember you telling me before that I treated you well by giving you a lot of warmth. What about the Master?"

Mo Ran said, "He gave me my life."

Shi Mei did not answer for a long time, and finally sighed, "I am not as good as that."

Mo Ran, seeing him like this, felt worse and said, "There is nothing to compare, people are different, you"

Shi Mei didn't wait for him to finish his sentence, and with her face sideways and against the wind, she raised her hand and patted Mo Ran's chest, "Alright, you don't have to say anything. I know what you mean, and I'm actually not that calculating, but I'm really sad that you misunderstood me like that before."

"Hmm."

"Turn the page, no one will ever think about it again."

Mo Ran's dark eyes were warm and he nodded half-heartedly, almost gratefully, "Good."

Shi Mei, a slender figure, leaned against the jade railing of the sword dance pavilion, and after a moment he looked down at the forest leaves

"Go back."

"What did you want to say that year?"

Almost at the same time, Mo Ran said, "What year?"

Shi Mei said, "The year the sky split."

Mo Ran now remembers the unspoken confession she made to Butterfly Town when the sky split, and freezes for a moment.

Shi Mei said, "You didn't finish one sentence with me at first, I don't know what you wanted to say, can I ask you now"

Mo Ran was about to reply when he heard a loud bang from the Loyalty Palace behind him.

He and Shi Mei both blushed, and Mo Ran said, "It's the Master's side."

Shi Mei had no time for small talk and said, "Go back and see."

Together they swept back in the direction of the main hall, and when they reached the door of the Loyalty Palace, they found a second fat gourd in the large square.

Mo Ran exclaimed, "What is this again?"

Xue Zhengyong hid her face and said, "A gourd of wine and sex."

"How many of them are there?"

"Two, one wine, one colour. They are twins." Xue Zhengyong's head was about to explode, "The one who fought with Yu Heng over wine was only the younger brother, and this one who is here now is only the older brother."

Mo Ran's brow twitched and it took him a moment to respond: "Wine gourds like to fight with people, that colour gourd," he turned away with a grimace and looked at the fat peach-coloured gourd that dribbled round and round.

Xue Zhengyong said, not without embarrassment, "The gourd of colour is capable of all the temptations of the world, and it only obeys the purest person."

Mo Ran turned his head and said, " Xue Meng "

Shi Mei said, "Xue Meng is not there anymore."

Xue Zhengyong pointed to the colourful gourd: "Already in the gourd for his trial, he said he would share Yu Heng's worries."

Mo Ran breathed a sigh of relief, "That's okay, if even Xue Meng isn't pure in this world, then there's no such thing as a pure person."

As soon as the words left his mouth, a "bang" was heard.

Xue Meng was spat out of the gourd's mouth and fell heavily into the middle of the crowd, making so much noise that even Chu Wanning, who was drinking with the gourd, looked back.

Shi Mei, stunned, said, "What's wrong?"

Another person was surprised: "I don't think even young master".

"Cough cough cough." Xue Meng, red in the face, staggered up from the ground, her eyes angry and ashamed, and roared towards the colourful gourd, "You you demon, you you, you, you stinking shame"

Mo Ran looked back and forth and found that Xue Meng had somehow changed into a golden red robe and was amused and curious: "What's going on?"

Xue Zhengyong just held his forehead, simply unable to speak.

Shi Mei said, "I've heard of this, the Lust Gourd is not actually lustful, but infatuated, it wants to find the cleanest, most infatuated partner in the world who has no one in his heart to marry. It is said that those who are absorbed into the gourd will be in a new room."

"And then what?"

"Then the genin of the colour gourd takes the form of a bride or groom, but both bride and groom have their faces covered and have to wait for the other to uncover them with their own hands."

Mo Ran said, "Is it the colour gourd itself that you see when you uncover it?"

"Naturally not, what you see when you uncover it will vary from person to person, if you have a sweetheart, what you see is what your sweetheart looks like, if you don't have a sweetheart but are horny, it is said that what you see will be" Shi Mei coughed lightly, a little embarrassed, "a stunningly beautiful man or woman without an inch of clothing. Only the purest of the pure can see the lustful gourd in its true form."

Mo Ran turned her head in disbelief to Xue Meng, who was smoking with anger: "So what did Xue Meng see?"

He could not believe that Xue Meng could have a sweetheart, but neither could he believe that Xue Meng could see any naked beauty or beautiful man in her eyes.

But Xue Meng was literally thrown out by the colourful gourd, and apparently got a good laugh out of it as it bounced and rolled around in place.

Shi Mei, who could not bear the thought, rounded up for Xue Meng and said, "Maybe it was a miscalculation on the part of the gourd."

Before he could finish his sentence, he heard Xue Meng pull out Dragoncity, pointing at the gourd and shouting, "How dare you fucking confuse me by making an illusion of myself and making me wear a woman's dress in your illusion?

""Many disciples at the top of death and life, including Mo Ran, were silent for a moment, trying to hold back, but not holding back, and all burst out laughing hahaha.

Xue Meng is the most self-absorbed Xue Meng, the peacock opens the screen and the narcissus shines in the shadow, the new bride is transformed by the colorful gourd, Xue Meng lifts the cover and sees her own heavily made-up face

"Reasonable." Mo Ran did her best to hold back an exaggerated smile and nodded pertinently, " Xue Meng should be pretty as a girl."

Before he could finish his joy, he heard Xue Zhengyong cry out with a headache: "Yu Heng, why don't you help cure this lecherous gourd when you've finished with the wine gourd?"